The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1887-12-23
mr.. CHIRRUP's CHRISTMAS.

Mr.. Chisrup was glum. Any one
else, with a less admirable disposition
would have been "cross" nnder the
Same proyocation.
But Mr.. Chirrup was never cross.
and he was seldom "glum."
However, when il comes to the day
before Christmas and you have no mon
ey to buy your wifea Christmas gift on
anything toput in the children's stock
ings, and no prospected turkey, or
mince pie and plum pudding for your
Christmas dinner, you are excusable
for being glum.
So, al least, thought MI. Chirrup, as
he sat looking out Of the window Of
Lawyer Ledgerly's Office, where he was
employed Of ably no-means extravagant
salary. Lawyer Ledgerly was M-'ttoc
Tito be seen" his mother-in-law said,
so there was no hope Of his anticipat-
ing his next quarters salary, as he had
sometimes done on similar pressing &C.
casions.
For Mr.. Ohirrup,a salary was so small
and his family 50 large, twas not much
wonder there was usually some difficult
ty in making the salary stretch from
one quarters end TO the other.
All these things Mr. hirrup pondered
as he sat looking out Of the window iu
Lawyer Ledgerly's cfFse, which was on
Fifth street, just opposite Union Mar
ket. And our hero-if little Mr.. CHR
rup can be called anybody's hero-grew
GUNNER than ever, and beat the aDev.
IFS tattoo" on the window sill as gIum
people usually do. For the sight Of The
market stalls crowded with Christmas
Injuries, was not exactly calculated 70
cheer up q man In Mr.. Chirrup's cir
cumstances.
He still gazed modify at the well
filed market stalls, at the crowds OF
people, jostling and elbowing each
other, when he suddenly started and
peered sharply from under his eve
brows, rs if he had seen someone ne
knew.
That short, sleek-1ooking gentleman
In the nobby hat and overcoat, with 4
huge market basket in one hand, and d
gold-headed cane Ia the other. Surely
that was Mr.. Chirrup's elder brother,
Rothschildl
AS he made the discovery, Mr.. CHR
rup-Rothschild Chirrup that was-
was evidently pricing q turkey; q mon
ster turkey il was too, the biggest thai
Mr.. Cairrup-either Of the MI. Chft-
rups-had seen N the market. And the
would-be purchaser held IL up, punched
It, turned e around and heldjt up again
for all the world as if he was exhibit
ing it for the benefit of his brother, look
ing glnmly down from the window OPP
posite.
But In reality he was only dessAing Ia
his own mind that this was really the
biggest, the plumpest, the tehderest
and the most tempting looking fowl he
had seen yet, and therefore he would
take it. and plump it went forthwith,
MI. Rothschild Chirrup,s hinge
market basket, which seemed yawning
to receive il.
Mr.. Chirrup--our Mr., Chitrup this
time, came as ear sneering as he had
ever done ii his life, when the turkey
disappeared in his brothers. basket.
For & bitter enlargement HAD existed
between the two brothers from time fm-
memorial-or thereabouts.
mo doubt ycu can buy turkeys, =
thought Mr.. Chirrup-Cal6b his name
was. No doubt he can buy turkeys,
and celery, toe" For q big bunch Of
large enough for q winter bou-
1uet, had followed the mammoth tur-
key to its hiding place.
"Andn there's one thing / like bet
ter than another it's celery Thought
Afr. Caleb Chirrup, trying very hard to
look Grabbed and revengeful, but not
succeeding very well. However, he
did manage to look quite savage and re-
for him, which is saying q good
heal.
Mr.. RothachiId, in the meantime,
pursued the even, but pompous. tenor